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  • Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

    Funny   Wisdom   Country  
  • We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other.

  • The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

    "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.
  • A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

    "Reflections on Containment". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 3, p. 130, June 1994.
  • War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

    War   Giving   Politics  
  • He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

    Country   Thinking   Wish  
  • Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.

    Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.171, Princeton University Press
  • I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.

  • The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.

  • The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

  • With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture and they will not be engaged in murder or carry out other illegal activities.

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  • I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue their international relations with different countries.

    "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.
  • I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

  • Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

  • According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.

    War   Men   Stupidity  
    Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.16, Columbia University Press
  • I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

  • Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.

    Country   War   Sleep  
  • The United Nations remains the sole universal international organisation designed to maintain global peace. And in this sense it has no alternative today. It is also apparent that it should adapt to the ever-changing world, which we discuss all the time: how it should evolve and at what rate, which components should undergo qualitative changes. Of course, I will have to or rather should use this international platform to explain Russia's vision of today's international relations, as well as the future of this organisation and the global community.

    "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.
  • At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

    Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.243, Oxford University Press
  • I never planned on being an actress, just as I never planned on being a model. I went to law and international-relations school. It wasn't my direction. It kind of happened to me. And because it wasn't my dream when I started, I wasn't starstruck.

    Dream   School   Law  
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  • John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.

    Medicine   Two   Together  
  • When diplomacy ends, War begins.

    War   Mein Kampf   Ends  
  • Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.

    "Shashi Tharoor on 'Have Your Say'". "Have Your Say" with Bridget Kendall, shashitharoor.in. September 24, 2006.
  • It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.

    Views   People   Poverty  
  • We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

    Enemy   Allies   Politics  
  • ...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

    Cost   Benefits   Matter  
    Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.304, Penguin UK
  • A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

    Wise   War   Men  
    "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 39), 1952.
  • It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.

    Devil   Worship   Poor  
  • In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

  • By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries, the kind of cars we drive - will be forever transformed by the climate and energy challenge.

    Jobs   Home   Car  
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